Did I dream that absurdity? If so, why?!
--Wait, no, I just heard it again. That nut really is going to move to Massachusetts to run against Kerry in 2006. Yeah, that's going to go well....
I fear I was derelict in my responsibilities yesterday, having failed to mention the UN commemoration of the holocaust and the recognition of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. Touching words were exchanged and exclaimed--the UN is so very good at speeches--"Never Again!" But with the history of Cambodia, Rwanda, and the current situation in Darfur weighing heavily (so I hope) upon their collective shoulders, the words rang empty in my ears.
If you wonder at my cynicism--and you shouldn't if you've read anything I've ever written--take a look at this column in the New York Post by Andrea Peyser:
Sixty years after the world learned that bored Germans flung Jewish babies into the air for target practice at the Auschwitz death camp, our oily pals at the United Nations have officially acknowledged the Holocaust.
Oh, but that's not all. Here's Ms. Peyser's characterization of the UN:
the anti-American, anti-Semitic rats infesting the banks of the East River — a
species alternately known as the "French," "Germans" and "Libyans," among others
Lovely, no? As if Americans are rallying around the world stopping all genocide and crimes against humanity like a nation-sized superhero? Hardly.
I don't object to the UN--it was created with the best of intentions, and I shudder to think of our world without it. It's the countries in the UN which create all the problems and then ignore those problems while glibly discussing them in a sort of good-will camouflaged.
Go see Hotel Rwanda to "commemorate" the "Never Again" of the world. Take a moment to read the news coming from Darfur--it might take a little digging; the 24 hour news stations are too busy hyping the Superbowl to make time for humanitarian crisis and--shush--genocide.
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